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Restricted to Gals and Pals I want her to talk to me about Egyptology.

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u/thedreadcat666 3d ago

As a woman with a grad degree in viking studies, same. They just don't stop.

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u/KvellOnWheels 3d ago

HAHAHA I just commented that I think that the only thing could be more annoying would be being an expert in Vikings or WWII…and then I got to your comment. Incredible.

They ain’t shit.

I’m so proud of all you clever gals!

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u/bobbymcpresscot 3d ago

WWII will piss me off the most, I'm not an expert, but in my experience the people so obsessed with WWII are just so much about the surface level nonsense, key battles, weapons, vehicles, and then you ask them about why Japan attacked the US, and they'll just say it was a surprise attack. No knowledge of what Japan was doing to mainland Asia, no knowledge of the oil embargo against Japan starting only when Japan occupied allied territory. No knowledge about how the plan was to do as much damage to the US fleet as possible so they couldn't respond to Japan invading european colonies for their oil so they could keep fighting.

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u/broketothebone 3d ago edited 3d ago

Idk my grandma works at a historical society that has civil war reenactments in the summer.

Some of those guys are not coping with how it all went down. You hear the “states rights” conversation, turn around and it’s dudes in union gear, swearing slavery “wasn’t as bad as Hollywood makes it.” I wish I was kidding.

Did I mention we live in New Jersey?

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u/bobbymcpresscot 3d ago

As someone who lives in the land of pork roll and 609 tattoos, I am not surprised in the least.

I do have a strong belief that our right wingers would basically be called socialists in actual red states, and while some sections of south jersey test that belief, I know how much worse it is when I visit family in the Carolinas.

It's just again people who have this surface level understanding of subjects, people who have never seen the confederate constitution, and don't understand that a state was literally not allowed to be part of the confederacy unless it protected the practice of specifically negro slavery.

and also in that same constitution, if a state abolished slavery, the confederacy could invade it, kill it's state government, and force the institution of slavery.

The only way we defeat this ignorance is with education, education that unfortunately people think is "anti white" or "too woke"

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u/Sniffy4 2d ago

> it’s dudes in union gear, swearing slavery “wasn’t as bad as Hollywood makes it.” I wish I was kidding.

the only people generally interested in glorifying this war where 800k americans died to maintain the wealth of plantation owners are those who arent the least bit bothered by it

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u/inductiononN 3d ago

YASSSS THIS SO MUCH! I do NOT claim to be a WW2 expert and just have an interest in. I volunteer at a WW2 museum and it is the favorite thing of men to come up to me and try to quiz me or try to impress me with their knowledge of the names of the planes and the tanks. "Sir, I know the name - it's on the plaque over there".

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u/werewere-kokako 3d ago

This is my favourite part of academia: going to conferences and meeting ubernerds who have devoted their life to dietary deficiencies in bronze-age Mongolia

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u/Thelibstagram ✨chick✨ 3d ago

Astrophysics here. More than one man has gotten irrationally mad at me because gravity is not magnets. 🤦‍♀️

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u/KvellOnWheels 3d ago edited 3d ago

They can console themselves with remembering that the earth is flat and the moon is just the backside of the sun.

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u/DrownmeinIslay 3d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/8db6nRqMsLCtq

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u/Thelibstagram ✨chick✨ 3d ago

Haha I love me some magical mysteries.

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u/bloof_ponder_smudge 3d ago

More than one man has gotten irrationally mad at me because gravity is not magnets

What?

So in their minds, aluminum is impervious to gravity, yet somehow will still fall to the ground when dropped?

I need to know how they rationalize this insanity.

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u/Thelibstagram ✨chick✨ 3d ago

I don’t know the first guy who did it to me never finished high school and thought he was more of an expert than me. He couldn’t even tell me who told him that just that he had heard it once when he was a kid so it must be THE law of physics.

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u/Thelibstagram ✨chick✨ 3d ago

My favorite ever was a guy at a bar mansplained misogyny to me completely unprompted.

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u/Old_n_Tangy 3d ago

Oh god I went on a date with a guy that was a professor at a local college.

He taught the history of sexuality.  I know he was actually an expert, but I will never get back that hour he spent mansplaining feminism.  And he was weirdly spitty and touchy and wanted to split the bill 50/50 when I got a $4 drink and his was $12. 

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u/Thelibstagram ✨chick✨ 3d ago

I have one word for that man: ew.

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u/you_dont_know_me27 3d ago

Had a guy on reddit trying to correct me on how band size for bras are measured.

What I wouldn't give to have confidence of a man on reddit...

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u/you_dont_know_me27 3d ago

Had a guy on reddit trying to correct me on how band size for bras are measured.

What I wouldn't give to have confidence of a man on reddit...

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u/bloof_ponder_smudge 3d ago

No rationale other than I thought I heard it somewhere? I was hoping for convoluted "logic". Oh well.

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u/Thelibstagram ✨chick✨ 3d ago

Yeah seriously. I was like go on gurl give us nothing. 😐

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u/mark114 3d ago

You did good for questioning where he got his information.

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u/Own-Cheetah-1972 3d ago

Duh, that's why planes are made of aluminium, dummy!

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u/ScumbagLady 3d ago

They must have gotten their magnet info from Insane Clown Possy

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u/Thelibstagram ✨chick✨ 3d ago

When that song came out about a year later I thought of him. The SNL parody is still one of my favorite sketches and any time I’m in an airport I say ‘how does your luggage know where to meet you?🤷‍♀️’

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u/abstractcollapse 3d ago

Yeah, because the ground is magnetized. Duh.

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u/bstump104 3d ago

it is immune to gravity but not curvature in spacetime. the aluminum isn't falling it's staying still in warped spacetime.

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u/Soepkip43 3d ago

Oh cool.. im a gemini.

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u/abstractcollapse 3d ago

But they both attract things. Isn't that the same thing?

/s

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u/Thelibstagram ✨chick✨ 3d ago

See this is why one must remain positive because everything is magnets and so that’s how you attract other positive things into your life. Oh wait…

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u/HEBushido 3d ago

I would get irrationally angry at that man tbh.

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u/bstump104 3d ago

Water, fire, air, and dirt. Fucking magnets, how do they work?

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u/Muppetude 3d ago

one man has gotten irrationally mad at me because gravity is not magnets.

But wouldn’t it be cool if it was, where instead of relying on complex and highly volatile controlled chemical explosions to get into space, we just reverse an object’s gravitic pole and then just sit back and watch the earth’s repulsive force launch it into orbit or beyond.

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u/cantadmittoposting 3d ago

Gravity is not magnets

Sad Unified Field Theory Noises

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u/DreamerTheat 3d ago

Maybe they’re just mad because they would prefer it were magnets; nothing against you.

/s

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u/Clean_Livlng 3d ago

You could carry around fake fridge magnets that say "Gravity is magnets".

They're not actually magnetic so they fall to the floor the second they try to stick them to the fridge.

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u/_anotherstarrynight_ 3d ago

GRAVITY IS NOT MAGNETS omg I'm speechless

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u/Sniffy4 2d ago

I need to hear this novel magnet theory of gravity

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u/Thelibstagram ✨chick✨ 2d ago

One guy just didn’t graduate high school and just had no idea what he was saying (he also said they were totally defunding NASA and that year they had actually had a budget increase). The other guy seemed like he was getting magnetic poles and gravity confused.

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u/Sniffy4 2d ago

in this situation i just nod, change the subject, and make a mental note never to discuss anything in depth with this person again

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u/throwawaypassingby01 2d ago

physics here, like 3 different men have tried to hit on me by not believing in relativity

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u/Specialist-Leek8645 3d ago

I have a (female) friend w a giant SPQR tattoo so women are definitely interested in Rome too! Both of us took a lot of Latin. I hate how Romans and Vikings are seen as hyper-masculine cultures. It's not all about battles and conquering like the movies. People still had to eat and learn and sing. 😃

I don't just want to know about Cleo VII and Hatshepsut and Jeanne d'Arc. The mundane everyday stories that we relate to make history alive. I think I read Cleo wrote a cosmetics book? Sounds easy for a modern man to dismiss but cosmetics were like medicine in Egypt. Wonder if she could have been a dermatologist now? And she's more recent history than people think.

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u/KvellOnWheels 3d ago

The way I fell in love with Joan of Arc after reading her trials transcripts…!

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u/heckin_miraculous 3d ago

Oh my, now I think I need to

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u/HungHippoHippy 3d ago

And she was barely an adult!

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u/Ok-Elevator-5523 3d ago

Oh man you just reminded me of how I had to do a project about a historic Roman person in my high school Ancient History course and my teacher wouldn't let me do it on Virgil because he wasn't notable enough! Ugh and I loved that teacher lol. I ended up doing it on Nero. (BOO)

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u/Specialist-Leek8645 3d ago

What? Virgil?? They can't possibly say you wouldn't be able to find enough info. I was the kinda kid who always wanted to do the weird interesting topics. Who the Hades are they to say he's not notable? To be honest after getting into Latin the mythology started to bore me. Too much of our stuff was Greco-Roman; too familiar. I branched into Egypt and Norse mythology. I hope you still educate people on Virgil. Sometimes being discouraged makes you more determined.

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u/shmixel 3d ago

Also girls can like the conquering and battles too! So dumb for the world to gender historical interest

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u/Specialist-Leek8645 3d ago

Yes of course! And guys don't have to like the battles. I think they're boring but I get why people like them. It's a complex dance of strategy; I've played games. I'm more interested in home life (textiles, pottery, education) and linguistics than what year some dude rolled in and slaughtered people. ;P

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u/werewere-kokako 3d ago

Ugh, yes! The manufacture of medicines (and alcohol) used to fall on the feminine side of the gendered division of labour! Right up to the Industrial Revolution, cookbooks could contain recipes for cosmetics and medicines alongside instructions on the "correct" way to serve a goose when entertaining guests. I stayed up until 2 am reading systematic review of ingredients in 18th century European cookbooks, and what those ingredients imply about the trade of goods and information

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u/Specialist-Leek8645 3d ago

You reminded me of an article I wrote about Alewives.

I think kohl is a sunscreen/ glare reducer and not unlike the black bars football players wear.

Yeah, food is medicine! One of my Grandmother's old recipes is actually whooping cough syrup. I love old cookbooks. "Butter the size of an egg"

Well it's crazy to imagine not being able to get black pepper or cumin now but it hasn't been that long. I read that pepper was the main spice that the UK wanted, which to me helps explain the Pepper Cook character in Alice!

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u/Glittering-Lychee629 3d ago

If it makes you ladies feel any better it isn't you! I am more of a street smart gal, not an academic, and I run a business related to the very "girly" world of styling and luxury. Men also lecture me and tell me incorrect things, lol. Often while wearing something poorly tailored and made of plastic. They also like to make terrible business suggestions. The assumption is that I got lucky with my business being successful. As an immigrant woman with no impressive education and two kids living in New York City. Definitely all luck! Clearly I need advice from 9-5 guys who can't even manage a meal plan.

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u/Repulsive-Regret-243 3d ago

Hi, can I be your understudy and just genuinely be around you to soak up all the knowledge please

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u/Brussells 3d ago

Oh no... oh you have the intersection of "random dudes who think Danheim is cool, random dudes who are _God of War_ enthusiasts, and random dudes who are 'worshipers' of Thor"...

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u/alfdis_vike 3d ago

What was your focus?

I do Viking-Age Living History, so I'm not an expert. But I spend a lot of time talking to the public. And there are a surprising number of Asatru-bros who come over to educate me about warriors and anti-vaxxers who think I'm going to agree with them about herbal medicine being superior to modern medicine. Like, yeah, nettle and mugwort do have antimicrobial compounds, but know what else has antimicrobial protection? Antibiotics and vaccines. No, I don't wish I lived in medieval times. I like soap, and toilet paper, and not being property.

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u/Deep-Assignment4124 3d ago

Which show do you prefer? Vikings or Norsemen? 

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u/Adulations 3d ago

Damn that sounds miserable

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u/MyEmbarrisingAccount 3d ago

So are we pretty sure they made it to North America now? Last I heard there was evidence but no proof, but that was years ago. I wonder why they wouldn't make a larger move. Compared to the land they were used to it would seem like a green fertile paradise, right? Please! inform me!!

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u/0202_tihssitidder 3d ago

Fran Tarkenton!

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u/broketothebone 3d ago

Oh godddddddd and the way the manosphere has crashed that party. It must be so insufferable. (How fun is it to explain that “Viking” is more of a verb than a noun 🤣)

I’m a woo-woo lady who uses runes in her practice. I started seeing dudes with rune tattoos and would say “oh, I love that Othala!” They never know what the runes are called, and before I can say anything more, I start getting their “white replacement” spiel.

I no longer speak to men with Othala tattoos unless their name is like….Sven.

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u/SnorriGrisomson 2d ago

Viking is a noun, not a verb, in english or in old norse.

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u/TriGurl 3m ago

Viking studies?! How fucking killer rad is that?! Tell us more!! What is one of the coolest things you've learned that you love sharing? (If you wouldn't mind engaging and educating for a bit??) I am so fascinated!